THE HERO.
His name is George, generally speaking. "Call me George!" he says
to the heroine. She calls him George (in a very low voice, because she is
so young and timid). Then he is happy.
The stage hero never has any work to do. He is always hanging
about and getting into trouble. His chief aim in life is to be accused of
crimes he has never committed, and if he can muddle things up with a
corpse in some complicated way so as to get himself reasonably mistaken
for the murderer, he feels his day has not been wasted.